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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1950
Page
4
Our Daily Bread notes a nation stirring as citizens begin new routines after a period of unrest. The piece highlights economic activity, civic engagement, and public events shaping daily life across cities and towns. This snapshot emphasizes resilience and communal effort.
A column argues the United States must recognize hard limits in Asia, noting Congress voted down 80 million dollars in six months aid to Southern Asia. It claims U S policy shifts toward sea power with a wary view of Korea and China, and cites Sir Francis Bacon on navies while suggesting air power changes the equation. The piece cautions against projecting sentiment on native peoples amid a changing political landscape.
County Agent Oliver L. Adams urged farmers to apply the second cattle grub treatment using rotenone dust. About two ounces dust sprinkled on the animal’s back where grubs are found, rubbed in well. Three treatments a month apart give strong control, with immediate relief and fewer heel flies and grubs next seasons. Dust also controls lice when applied around head and neck and between legs. As a spray, mix one pound dust in five gallons water.
Athletic Director John Barnhill and head coach Ouis Douglas of the University of Arkansas will attend the annual banquet for the Hope Bobcats Monday night at the high school. Magnalla A&M coach Ehner Smith will be principal speaker. The new Babcat captain and award winners will be announced by Coach Clyde Trickey. Tickets are on sale for 52 guch. The pair arrives at Hotel Barrow at 5 p.m. They will be joined by Chism Reed of the Razorback Booster club. Local Parker Booster club members will elect new officers at the dinner.
A civil service examination will be held at Blevins on February 4 to fill a substitute clerk position at the Blevins Postoffice. The test is open to the public, but only residents within the Blevins Postoffice delivery zone are eligible. Contact the Blevins postmaster for more information.
Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon in Arkansas. Tonight and Saturday show continued mild conditions with rising temperatures and light winds.
Washington faces a major setback as the House defeats the Korean economic aid bill 103 to 182. The bill sought 60 million dollars more to launch a 120 million program aiding South Korea’s economy against communist pressure. Republicans and some Democrats see a loss of confidence in bi partisan foreign policy and President Truman’s approach to China and Formosa.
New York January 20 A hydrogen bomb is explained as a fusion of hydrogen to helium releasing far more energy than fission. The report weighs chances of using a nuclear flash to trigger a hydrogen bomb, noting uncertainties about sustaining the high temperatures required and the unknowns of the fusion process. It cites three hydrogen varieties and mentions risks and unknowns in the field. E. G. Lindyard, aged 89, dies in Hope hospital. survivors include two sons, a daughter, and other details, with funeral plans set for Spring Hill Baptist church.
Six hundred volunteers combed a 12 to 14 square mile area in Wingdale Mountain for seven-year-old David Berry and his poodle Queenie after he wandered away from his Clove Valley home to find a Christmas tree. The boy, a Clove Valley school pupil, and his brothers aged six and five were with their mother Hazel Berry when he disappeared near dusk. Airplanes and bloodhounds aided the dawn search, with sheriff parties organizing the effort in near freezing conditions amid rugged, cedar-dotted terrain and frozen ponds.
Mrs Hattie Byrom aged 66 native of Hempstead died at her Hope home early today. She was a member of Spring Hill Methodist Church. Survived by husband Tom Byrom four sons Jewell Jeremy Mudie Byrom Hope and Eddie Byrom Perth Ark three daughters Mrs Joe Reschke Mrs Cecil Sanders Spring Hill and Mrs Hocerdick Turner Stamps. Burial is in Foster Cemetery with pallbearers listed.
Rev. E. H. Hamilton, missionary to China, will speak at First Presbyterian Church of Hope on Sunday morning January 22. His talk, Is There Hope For Chin, notes his 1922 B D from Union Theological and wartime and missionary service in China with periods in France and New York Biblical Seminary. He and wife Estelle McAlpine lived in China until 1941 and again from 1947 to 1948 before final expulsion by the Communists.
Jersey City district court granted a divorce to Mrs. Willian J. Nickerson on desertion charges. She testified her husband left for a weekend at a nudist camp two and a half years ago and never returned.
Defense Secretary Johnson urged extending the draft act beyond next June. He argued it is a decisive factor in stopping communism in Europe and a prop to peace, warning that termination could undermine NATO allies and signaling U.S. seriousness to the world. He cited Moscow reports and European morale as supporting the wartime draft act.
A gas pipeline explosion near Caldwell O moves flames reportedly 500 feet high. No injuries reported though one vacant farmhouse and barn burned. three other houses threatened. Fire under control by 6 a.m. after shutoff valves closed. Gas from Texas to western and eastern areas. TWA pilot observed flames several thousand feet high from Newark to Kansas City route. Cause and extent of damage under investigation.
Washington January 20 South ern congressmen express doubt that the cotton acreage argument bill will suffer from the bitter fight over a proposed rule change. They note no evidence of reprisals linked to cotton policy as administration forces debate the rules committee power.
Washington reports say diplomatic relations with Bulgaria teeter on breaking after Bulgaria demanded recall of U S minister Donald R Heath. The note fuelled fears of severed ties as Bulgaria disputed at The Hague and aligned with Romania and Hungary against U S and UN charges. Heath, a Topeka native, was linked to Kostov trial. Kostov was hanged after accusing Americans and Tito of subverting Bulgaria.
Miami dispatch reports federal agents guarded the secret transfer of Purple Gang member Harry Fleisher to Detroit. Fleisher faces conspiracy to murder and unlawful flight charges, held on 100000 bond. Arrested at Pompano Beach while on Florida shore leave, details kept secret for security reasons. Fleisher claims he was framed in the 1945 Warren Roberts murder case.
HAL BOYLE argues mankind has long sought to play God and now faces a final limit as the hydrogen bomb looms. He outlines the bomb’s vastly greater destructive power, the inevitability of arms race dynamics, and a sobering view of humanity’s self-defeating drift toward annihilation.
Rain swollen Mississippi and its tributaries forced thousands to flee lowland homes across Arkansas and Tennessee as engineers warned of possible levee openings. Rescue boats, coast guard helicopters, and army pontoon barges moved evacuees and livestock to higher ground along river valleys from Missouri to Tennessee.
The Chamber of Commerce showcases products that may be produced in Hope if a deal to lure a plant succeeds. A visiting manufacturer is expected to tour Hope sites, while locals and businesspeople share views on the goods, believed handy for families. Viewable at the chamber office.
Middlebrooks Grace police chief reports a robbery in the neighborhood last night. A car kept on the block, a safecracker used tools to pry a safe open, and a burglary yielded cigars and about $500 in items.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions wiretap material denial of suppression and requests for information, with references to a defendant and interception. The exact event, names, dates, and locations are unclear from the readable portions.
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